decoyoctopus87 wrote:Also, from the romantic/sentimental grouping, did anyone else love the Loveless/Space Monkey video: Delirium? I really thought that one stood out in that category personally.

x2...Although my guy friend sitting next to me didn't enjoy it quite as much as I did. I think a lot of guys discounted it simply because it was shonen-ai, which really is a shame, because it was very well edited and had a nice story.

My bf is your typical anti-yaoi/shounen-ai type guy, but he actually really enjoyed that vid. He was actually going to vote for it before DWChang's vid came on. (But I really enjoyed it and did vote for it. )

Finally got it posted. I did a few touch-ups, and when I went to export the new version, Premiere went evil on me. I'm glad it didn't do this right before the contest. My laptop would've been out the window.

The "local" version has the touch-ups. The "direct link" version is what I submitted to Otakon.

EDIT: You're leaving?! You're not allowed! We will tie you to a chair and make you watch our AMV's!

Seriously though, we're going to miss you.

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At this point I still am, but in a month or two I hope to have a replacement. Already have a couple people to hand things off too, it's just a matter of figuring who is doing what exactly.
This is the only year I've actually run the contest, but I've done work on it for the past 4. It's just getting stale at this point, plus each year I sorta put a lot of my own stuff on hold for a good 9 months of the year. I figure it's time to get back to doing my own thing again.

If there is anything at all that would get me to stick around it's the fact that this year went so... smoothly. I know some people are saying the contest wasn't as strong as it was in past years, and I can agree with that (I didn't agree with the decisions of some prescreeners, but I remained impartial), but everything else went pretty damn good. My entire goal for this year when I came into the Dept. Head position was to (hopefully) get the contest back on track and return it to some of it's former glory. I think we did that...

FTP has returned, deadline was later, we had more submissions, we had adequate space for the contest screenings with total attendance around 7000 over the weekend (making it more popular than any other programing item), the trophies were freaking awesome this year, we returned to using a video server (and had no technical issues at all during playback), and best of all... NO DRAMA! Everyone was surprised about this, and it honestly scared me at first. I was expecting complaint after complaint about deadlines and various other petty things. When I didn't see ANY of that I had honestly though a lot of editors had banded together to boycott the contest.
Mind you, I had to work hard to get a lot of the stuff we had this year that made it so great, but it only happened because the rest of Otakon staff worked with me. I'm hoping everyone will see how well things went this year and it'll leave a positive impression on them so that my replacement will be able to get the same time, space, and resources as we had this year (or better).

Otakon's AMV Contest is no AWA (yet), but I doubt 7000 people saw AWA's contests either. Otakon may not be the best contest... but without a doubt it's the best place to be seen.

At this point I still am, but in a month or two I hope to have a replacement. Already have a couple people to hand things off too, it's just a matter of figuring who is doing what exactly.This is the only year I've actually run the contest, but I've done work on it for the past 4. It's just getting stale at this point, plus each year I sorta put a lot of my own stuff on hold for a good 9 months of the year. I figure it's time to get back to doing my own thing again.

If there is anything at all that would get me to stick around it's the fact that this year went so... smoothly. I know some people are saying the contest wasn't as strong as it was in past years, and I can agree with that (I didn't agree with the decisions of some prescreeners, but I remained impartial), but everything else went pretty damn good. My entire goal for this year when I came into the Dept. Head position was to (hopefully) get the contest back on track and return it to some of it's former glory. I think we did that...

FTP has returned, deadline was later, we had more submissions, we had adequate space for the contest screenings with total attendance around 7000 over the weekend (making it more popular than any other programing item), the trophies were freaking awesome this year, we returned to using a video server (and had no technical issues at all during playback), and best of all... NO DRAMA! Everyone was surprised about this, and it honestly scared me at first. I was expecting complaint after complaint about deadlines and various other petty things. When I didn't see ANY of that I had honestly though a lot of editors had banded together to boycott the contest.Mind you, I had to work hard to get a lot of the stuff we had this year that made it so great, but it only happened because the rest of Otakon staff worked with me. I'm hoping everyone will see how well things went this year and it'll leave a positive impression on them so that my replacement will be able to get the same time, space, and resources as we had this year (or better).

Otakon's AMV Contest is no AWA (yet), but I doubt 7000 people saw AWA's contests either. Otakon may not be the best contest... but without a doubt it's the best place to be seen.

Well i mean do what you need to do. I dont think i could handle the techy stuff myself. Think if you didnt run it you'd enter?

PS: BTW do you know when the AMV winners stuff will be sent? I ask this causei live in the city and the mail system around here is....odd xD

Na, staff can't compete. I could send something as non-competing though.
And I actually have not even sent anything yet lol. It's been busy around here lately. In fact I have to call a bank about a credit card statement right now before I go to the store.

hackerzc wrote:Na, staff can't compete. I could send something as non-competing though.And I actually have not even sent anything yet lol. It's been busy around here lately. In fact I have to call a bank about a credit card statement right now before I go to the store.

hackerzc wrote:Na, staff can't compete. I could send something as non-competing though.And I actually have not even sent anything yet lol. It's been busy around here lately. In fact I have to call a bank about a credit card statement right now before I go to the store.

Cmme on you only run one tinly little contest! Anyway does your volunteer titles you have listed mean your coming to Sakura-Con next year?

hackerzc wrote:Na, staff can't compete. I could send something as non-competing though.And I actually have not even sent anything yet lol. It's been busy around here lately. In fact I have to call a bank about a credit card statement right now before I go to the store.

Cmme on you only run one tinly little contest! Anyway does your volunteer titles you have listed mean your coming to Sakura-Con next year?

Vlad

Sorry if this comes out the wrong way Vlad, but I have a life outside of anime and AMV stuff. The otaku thing is only one of the many hobbies I have. I just want to be able to do more of that other stuff is all.
As for Sakura-con it's doubtful. I just spent a good $9k total on a motorcycle, gear, and insurance... so I'm tapped out for a good while. It's hard to justify spending $1000 on a plane ticket (+ other expenses) for a 3 day con that I'm going to work.

hackerzc wrote:Na, staff can't compete. I could send something as non-competing though.And I actually have not even sent anything yet lol. It's been busy around here lately. In fact I have to call a bank about a credit card statement right now before I go to the store.

Cmme on you only run one tinly little contest! Anyway does your volunteer titles you have listed mean your coming to Sakura-Con next year?

Vlad

Sorry if this comes out the wrong way Vlad, but I have a life outside of anime and AMV stuff. The otaku thing is only one of the many hobbies I have. I just want to be able to do more of that other stuff is all.As for Sakura-con it's doubtful. I just spent a good $9k total on a motorcycle, gear, and insurance... so I'm tapped out for a good while. It's hard to justify spending $1000 on a plane ticket (+ other expenses) for a 3 day con that I'm going to work.

I was joking of course... too bad, would of loved to see you at Sakura-con.. Maybe that bike needs a bit of a "breakin" drive to the west coast come March:P

hackerzc wrote:Na, staff can't compete. I could send something as non-competing though.And I actually have not even sent anything yet lol. It's been busy around here lately. In fact I have to call a bank about a credit card statement right now before I go to the store.

Cmme on you only run one tinly little contest! Anyway does your volunteer titles you have listed mean your coming to Sakura-Con next year?

Vlad

Sorry if this comes out the wrong way Vlad, but I have a life outside of anime and AMV stuff. The otaku thing is only one of the many hobbies I have. I just want to be able to do more of that other stuff is all.As for Sakura-con it's doubtful. I just spent a good $9k total on a motorcycle, gear, and insurance... so I'm tapped out for a good while. It's hard to justify spending $1000 on a plane ticket (+ other expenses) for a 3 day con that I'm going to work.

I was joking of course... too bad, would of loved to see you at Sakura-con.. Maybe that bike needs a bit of a "breakin" drive to the west coast come March:P

Vlad

I kinda guessed, but the thing is I feel sorta bad that I don't do more. I did Otakon and Nekocon contests one right after the other. I ended up burning myself out on Otakon and barely doing crap for Nekocon, then I left Friday of the con and ended up quiting (I was having issues).
I expect more from myself is all, and this whole "having limits" thing is fairly new. But yeah apparently I really can only do so much at once. Weird huh? lol
Oh and I've already put 300 miles on it in 4 days, Just riding around here. I've also had it up to 100mph. I shouldn't be doing that yet (not supposed to go above 5500 rpm's until after 600 miles), but I figured if it was going to explode at that speed it woulda flat out killed me, in which case I really wouldn't have cared much at that point ^_^.